The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle/YMMV
- Angst? What Angst?: Despite being The Everyman, the narrator handles everything that happens to him pretty well.
- Complete Monster: Noburu Wataya.
- Epileptic Trees: None of the bizarre events that happen throughout the book are ever explained. Not in any satisfying way anyways.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The entire "Boris the Manskinner" sequence.
- Squick: You really don't want to know how to skin a person alive.